Bitcoin staged a strong rally in August, surging by almost 30%. While some believe that the bear market is over, others argue that the risk of a devastating plunge still lurks over the world’s largest crypto asset. Alphractal founder Joao Wedson said that $BTC’s Balanced Price currently stands near $38,400, but historical evolution does not
U.S. security agencies are accusing six Chinese artificial intelligence companies, including DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI, of using American frontier models at industrial scale to help train their own systems. The NSA, FBI and CISA said Tuesday that these companies extracted billions of tokens across millions of requests from models including Claude, GPT, Gemini and
Block, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey, wants federal regulators to let it custody bitcoin and stablecoins through a chartered trust bank. On Tuesday, the company said it applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., an uninsured, non-deposit-taking national trust bank. If approved,
A Sept. 2, 2026 analysis by New York Fed researchers shows how a few large reserve portfolios can lower the global dollar share without a broad retreat from dollars. For investors assessing future sovereign demand for Bitcoin, the distinction is between a changing average and an investment decision. Linda S. Goldberg, Oliver Hannaoui and Sneha
US-listed Bitcoin ETFs are $1 billion behind for the year, the difference between redemptions and deposits since January, shows data from September 8. This deficit matters to holders of IBIT, FBTC, and competing ETFs because it shows that the products at the center of Bitcoin’s institutional era spent much of 2026 losing money and only
Strategy doubled the size of its preferred-stock repurchase program to $2 billion Tuesday as Michael Saylor’s Sept. 8 recovery benchmark arrived with STRC still short of its $100 stated value. The board’s decision extends a campaign that was approaching the limits of its original $1 billion authorization after seven weeks of increasingly large purchases. Data
Circle has added upfront fee payments to CCTP Fast Transfer, allowing developers to quote and collect cross-chain $USDC fees on the source network while preserving the amount delivered to recipients. CCTP collects transfer fees before burning $USDC Circle’s official developer documentation says the process begins when an application requests a signed fee quote and submits
Bitcoin dipped below $80,000 as strong US jobs data raises the chances of another interest rate hike. Markets now put the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike on September 16 at about 60%. According to the recent Bitfinex Alpha report, the US added 162,000 jobs in August, while unemployment stayed at 4.1%. The data